[daip] Re: displaying on a mac

[Eric Greisen]

Antara Basu-Zych writes:

 > Sorry, I guess I am not familiar enough to know the answers to your  
 > questions, but here are my guesses:
 > 
 > The network has a MACPPC directory (I think this means the MAc  
 > installation exists).

    Probably not - there is a MACPPC area for some files even with no
installation.

 > But I don't know if the .dadevs or hosts.list files allow sharing  
 > with the mac installation.
 > 
 > To try to explain what I am attempting:
 > I  ssh -X into the SUN machine. Then, setenv DISPLAY to my MAC IP  
 > address:0.0. When I run AIPS I get past the printer choice, to...

     I think the error is in setting DISPLAY.  What is

echo $DISPLAY

before you set it?   It should be something like <sunhost>:11.0
where <sunhost> is the name of the sun you are on or localhost.
Then try without setting $DISPLAY

       aips tv=local:0

This runs servers on the sun that simply display on the Mac. It may be
slow but it will work and will not interfere with others also using
the sun.

Eric Greisen

 > And this is where AIPS hangs forever! I am afraid that I don't know  
 > or understand the intricacies of the way our system was set up. I  
 > also don't have permissions to modify the hosts.list file. An added  
 > complication is that my MAC is connected via dynamic link... so the  
 > IP changes every day. Is this hopeless?

The above suggestion should work even when the IP address changes no
matter what.